Material Ghost
Johns Hopkins University Press
In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade The Material Ghost tied for first place with Jean Luc Godard s Histoire s du Cinema Gilberto Perez draws on his lifelong love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write a lively wide ranging penetrating study of films and filmmakers and the nature of the art form